Basic Wildland Fire Investigation

Catalog description

An introduction to the roles and responsibilities of wildland firefighters in determining a wildland fire origin. Students will identify the wildland fire categories, wildland fire behavior and the initial observations made by the firefighter responding to and arriving at a wildland fire. The primary emphasis of this course is to teach sound wildland fire observations and origin scene protection practices that enable first responders to a wildland fire scene to perform proper origin scene protection procedures.